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Taking It Out on the Kids (Again): US Sanctions on Iran are Hurting the Young and the Sick

By dlindorff - Posted on 12 August 2012

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Taking It Out on the Kids:

US Sanctions on Iran are Hurting the Young and the Sick

By Dave Lindorff

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.

Albright, as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, when interviewed on CBS’s news magazine program “60 Minutes” back in 2000, was asked by reporter Lesley Stahl about reports that US sanctions on Iraq had led to the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children because of shortages of medicine and things like chlorine for treating water supplies. Stahl asked Albright if such a dreadful toll was “worth it.” Albright famously responded, “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.”

Albright must be happy then that apparently the same kind of heartless logic is at work once more, this time orchestrated by the Obama administration and the current Secretary of State, It Takes a Village author and self-styled child advocate Hillary Clinton.

According to a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon by the head of Iran’s Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, the current US-led sanctions campaign against Iranian financial institutions and efforts to prevent western banks from doing business with Iran have made it next to impossible for Iranian doctors and hospitals to obtain medicines from abroad for such relatively rare but serious diseases as hemophilia, Multiple sclerosis (MS), various cancers, kidney failure and thalassemia.

The tightening of international screws on Iranian financial transactions has also made it hard for domestic makers of some of these medicines in Iran to obtain the raw materials needed to manufacture needed medicines locally, according to the letter.

Fatemeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the author of the letter, called on the secretary general to act to prevent the sanctions campaign from harming an estimated 6 million Iranians who suffer from these diseases. She said that the sanctions had already “directly affected the lives and well-being of thousands of patients.”...

For the rest of this article by DAVE LINDORFF inThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent Project Censored Award-winning online newspaper, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1277

It is time to turn the tables on all totalitarian class systems, from Patriarchy to Late, Fascist Capitalism, who use both Fascist austerity, enslavement, through parasitical global control over the means of production, by Western class thugs. They can even enslave, whole nations, destroy their social control through crippled class hierarchies, failed class states targeted by the dominant, Western, Fascist, ideological class politicians and their Nato fascist alliance. The whole of class history uses this same parasitical, class control to carry out enslavement through property, class laws against its own social classes, that further extended produces many other enslaving class- forms, be it colonialism, post colonialism, apartheid, and Fascism itself.

The central function of all deformed class states, class systems, is their parasitical control over wealth, and labor, control over the means of production, which began the enslavement of women, then all of humanity itself, through today. All attempts to falsely compare subordinated, enslaved, boycotted nations from hierarchies of Western class states, class hierarchies, class elites and their class policies, stranguling,blackmailing, co opting, corrupting social, independent power, for the Orwellian, class principle. It assumes that ALL class states, failed nation-states, never achieve social control over civil society, as the post colonial states, even the deformed Stalinist, workers states. None of them ever had social control, or were independent, from the very same GLOBAL, CLASS MATRIX, enslaving other lessor class states. Western, global, Fascist Matrix enslaves its own workers enslaved through class hierarchies, class elites linked to parasitic ruling classes, that are enslaved by the same global Class/Fascist Matrix as Iraq, Iran, many other post colonial regimes, under the jack boot of Western Fascists. Thus comparing Stalinism, deformed workers states, comparing deformed, post colonial states, deformed, subordinated, failed class states to the their top Enlsavers, Western global Nazis, leaves out the central fact that all nations, all social classes are victims of the same PARASITIC CLASS SYSTEM, without social control to end their tyranny, where their social revolutions were co opted by new forms of class slavery, namely Capitalism.

NDAA on trial: White House refuses to abide with ban against indefinite detention of Americans

"Not only is the White House fighting in court for the power to jail Americans indefinitely without trial, but the Obama administration is refusing to tell a federal judge if they've abided by an injunction that prohibits them from such.

Attorneys for the White House have been in-and-out of court in Manhattan this week to argue that the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, or NDAA, are necessary for the safety and security of the nation. When President Barack Obama signed the bill on December 31, he granted the government the power to put any American away in jail over even suspected terrorist ties, but federal court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in May that this particular part of the NDAA, Section 1021, failed to “pass constitutional muster” and ordered a temporary injunction.

On Monday, White House attorneys asked for an appeal for that injunction so that they’d be once more legally permitted to indefinitely detain anyone over mere accusations. When specifically asked to answer whether or not they’ve adhered by Judge Forrest’s injunction so far, though, administration attorneys refused to cooperate with the questioning.

Activist and reporter Tangerine Bolen is a plaintiff in the case against the NDAA, and in an op-ed published Thursday in the Daily Cloudt, she writes that the federal attorneys asking for an appeal have declined to reveal whether or not they’ve cooperated with the judge’s May 2012 injunction. If the government has arrested anyone over alleged “belligerent ties” since Judge Forrest ordered a temporary stay, the government could be in contempt of court..."(which includes, Obama, bi partisan fascist Congress, and Western totalitarian class states who followed the fascist foreign policies of Nato/U.S. and Israeli Fascist Zionism.

NOT ONLY OBAMA SWORN TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, LAWS, CONGRESS AS WELL ARE INCLUDED, YET ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT HAVE COLLUDED TOWARDS FASCIST TYRANNY, END OF ALL SELECTED, DUPLICIOUTS, ENFORCED CLASS LAWS FOR NO RULE OF LAWS. BOYCOT FASCIST OBAMA, FASCIST CONGRESS!!

Humanity has been enslaved, co opted, corrupted, displaced, deformed into the class positions of blackmailing class hierarchies, which Wiki Leaks exposed through Western coercive, blackmailing dipolomacy and massive class corruption. These class hierarchies enable the slavery, economic despotism, imposed by the global 1 percent and its mercenary middle class deformed by class deformed functions of its class hierarchies. The only way civil society can turn up side down, thus turning right side up, the Patirarchal class mechanism, with its failed class states, blackmailing class hierarchies is to convert, the subordinated, fearful, totalitarian, partially developed middle layers, by dissolving, organized shock troops for Western Fascism, into fully developed social middle classes that have dismantled all class hierarchies, linked to the Patriarchal class mechanism. We need to organize a GLOBAL BOYCOTT, usurp, the Patriarchal class mechanism, with its endless forms of class, totalitarian class systems, by REFUSING TO VOTE FOR THE FASCIST OBAMA, FASCIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY, BI PARTISAN FASCIST CONGRESS, WESTERN FASCIST ALLIANCES THROUGH NATO, and organizing a global social agenda whose goal is to establish global middle classes, critical social forces, around the world, to kick start the social historical mechanism, the global social agency, universal middle classes, that ALL REJECT RELIGIOUS, SECULAR CLASS MYTHS, CLASS POLITICIANS, and fully develop the partial middle classes. ORGANIZE A GLOBAL BOYCOTT AGAINST WESTERN TOTALITARIAN BOYCOTTS BY CLASS THUGS, and take their power away, and their fascist militaries, fascist police laws, by unemploying these parasitical related class elites, class whores, ideological thugs, and corrupted class instiutions which now affects international agencies, like the U.N. itself

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GREED, RACISM AND APATHY - The new axis of evil

"I almost didn't write this. I knew that for informed, thinking people, most of what I want to say is known. However I considered that if I can motivate one person to talk to a relative or a friend who is ignorant of the facts, maybe send the link to this article, or to take action of any sort to help save the tattered remnants of our democracy, it is an effort worth making.

Right now it may already be too late to save our democracy.

The powerful people who pull the strings of government believe only they should decide our fate and they manipulate the ignorant, xenophobic, racist, paranoid elements of our society to act as their brownshirt foot soldiers (aka the Tea party) to push their agenda forward. They simply use the fear of un-American, brown, black, un-christian, gay "others" to supply simple targets for their hate. The fear mongers like Limbaugh and the propaganda arm of the GOP (fox news) dish up the easy lies and supply the "facts" the faithful love to hear. Much easier than actual fact checking and logic. This is how they get so many middle class and lower class whites to work against their own self interests. It would seem that anyone with a modicum of intellectual curiosity would HAVE to notice facts such as, over the past few decades the wealth gap has grown by incredible leaps and bounds, until now the top 20% control almost 90% of our wealth and it seems they would have serious reservations about supporting the obviously plutocratic agenda of the 1% and their foot soldiers, the GOP.

I mean, come on! the GOP! The same guy's who want to take away social security from your mom and dad, cut help for veterans, take away women,s rights, cut help for the poor, allow health insurance companies to continue screwing americans and drop them when they get sick...all so they can give their wealthy corporate masters more tax cuts! What sane working class person would even consider voting for these shills for the 1%?

Consider how willfully ignorant it is to ignore the fact that millions of children in america are hungry and illiterate. That millions of seniors and veterans are homeless and jobless and yet, incredibly, working class Tea party types choose to support Mitt Romney as he builds a car elevator in his latest mansion. They willingly buy the tired old lie that you can't raise taxes on the "job creators"" which is doubly hypocritical since Romney's history of vulture capitalism has cost so many american jobs and history has proved that the old "trickle down" approach has NEVER worked for anyone but the wealthy...."

BOYCOTT FASCISTS, TEA BAGGERS, REDNECKS, YAHOOS, WILLING IGNORANT "GOOD GERMAN", ER I MEANT, WILLING IGNORANT "GOOD AMERIKANS".....AND EXPOSE THEIR CONNECTION TO GERMAN WESTERN FASCIST CAPITALISM, TODAY, THE RASCIST, DUMBASS SHOCK TROOPS FOR THE MERCENARY, BLACKMAILING CLASS HIERARCHIE, CLASS THUGS IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR OWN DEMISE.

EVEN FOX NEWS IS FINALLY SHOWING HOW FOX NEWS, REDNECKS FALL FOR THIS MASS IGNORANCE, AND POINT OUT THAT LIKE REAGAN, OBAMA HAS EMBRACED AL QUAIDA TO TAKE DOWN ANOTHER SECULAR REGIME, FOR WESTERN FASCISM:

REALITY CHECK: CIA CREATED AL QUAEDA (AND USES IT FOR EMPIRE MERCENARIES WHO THINK THEY ARE IN CONTROL) VIDEO

REAL SOCIAL CONTROL MEANS ESTABLISHING INDEPENDENT, INDIVISIBLE, MIDDLE CLASSES, THAT ARE NOT FRACTURED , DIVIDED FROM EACH OTHER TO SERVE AS FASCIST PROFESSIONALS. TAKE DOWN THESE CLASS HIERARCHIES, CLASS POLITICIANS, BY ENDING FASCIST AUSTERITY, FASCIST CAPITALISM, FASCIST WESTERN MILITARY ALLIANCES, AND PROSECUTE ALL WESTERN CRIMINALS, FROM BANKING, CORPORATE, MILITARY, CONGRESSIONAL ELITES, WHETHER BUSH, OBAMA, ISRAELI FASCIST ZIONISTS, BUT TAKE SOCIAL POWER FOR SOCIAL CLASSES, AND END CLASS HISTORY ONCE AND FOR ALL. YOU END SLAVERY, ENSLAVEMENT, WARS , TOTALITARIANISM, YOU END WARS AND FASCISM, YOU MIGHT SAVE THE GLOBAL CLIMATE, MOTHER EARTH, AND PREVENT THE INSANE OCCUPATIONS, BLACKMAILING BOYCOTTS OF WESTERN NAZIS. BOYCOTT THEIR BOYCOTT AND TAKE DOWN THEIR GLOBAL TOTALITARIAN, PARASITICAL CONTROL OVER CIVIL SOCIETY. BUT ABOVE ALL REALIZE THAT CLASS SYTEMS DO NOT PRODUCE KITTES, OR SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL CONTROL, ANY MORE THAN ELEPHANTS PRODUCE KITTENS. IT IS NOT THEIR INHERENT NATURE, THEIR NATURE IS TO BETRAY, COMPORMISE, SLIDE INTO TOTALITARIAN FASCISM.

Joseph Stiglitz: 'This Deficit Fetishism Is Killing Our Economy'

Growth comes in fits and starts. Unemployment has been over 8 percent for three and a half years. Cutting taxes and interest rates hasn't worked, at least not enough.

To Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, the economy's strange behavior can be traced to the growing gap between wealthy Americans and everyone else.

In his new book, "The Price of Inequality," he connects surging student loan debt, the real-estate bubble and many of the country's other problems to greater inequality.

When the rich keep getting richer, he says, the costs pile up. For instance, it's easier to climb up from poverty in Britain and Canada than in the U.S.

"People at the bottom are less likely to live up to their potential," he says...."

SOCIAL POTENTIAL IS STRANGLED BY WESTERN FASCIST CORPORATIONS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE PARASITICAL CONTROL OVER LABOR, WEALTH, AS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, HENCE THE NEED TO RECLAIM SOCIAL CONTROL BY TAKING DOWN CLASS POLITICIANS, CLASS PARTIES, IDEOLOGICAL MANIPULATION, DECEPTION, CLASS MYTHS, AND FAKE SOCIAL RHETORIC ENDING THIS TOTALITARIAN GRIP BETWEEN YAHOOS AND PARASITIC NAZIS.

So long as social control over civil society is not accomplished, through an independent social agency, whether it was the Social Matriarchy which guaranteed the survival of Humanity as a whole, in primitive, productive historical conditions, or whether it was the Social middle classes, fully developed, as an international, global law of Reason, law of development, proposed by the Social Enlightenment, all partial experiments in democracy, social reforms, grafted into class systems become failed class states morphing into proto totalitarianism,class tyranny and class empires. This Orwellian, class process, inverted social reality was initiated by class history and the Patriarchal class mechanism, which became a crippled social form, defined as class-forms. Crippled class forms fail and not only do not accomplish social control over civil society, but its social reforms reverses course, through the degenerating class cycles, observed by the ancient Greeks, through class compromises, deformed social centers, false (class) centrism, always center right deformed class politics, which morphs into a proto totalitarian, degenerating class process, and under Late Capitalism degenerates into the proto Fascism of crippled class republics.

These corrupt, deformed, partially developed middle layers, imposed into Zero Sum games and class positions, explains why and how revolutionary Liberals, holding socialist and libertarian human values, became class elites, class- liberal class and conservative, both sell outs, phony socialists, who appease class compromise, appease fascist police laws that becomes fascist totalitarianism. That same deformed, totalitarian, Orwellian class principle, combining the class state with corporate power, produced the proto- totalitarian Mercantilism, Adam Smith was opposed to, under the Feudal class state, and under LATE CAPITLISM, produced the proto fascist Weimar, class republic morphing, deteriorating under German Fascist Capitalism. The deformed, subordinated, fearful, class positioned, partial middle layers, capitulated, through the culture of blackmailing class hierarchies, into the mindless, fascist middle class politicans and their know nothings, who focused on scapegoating, racism, divisible class tactics, and were used by Fascist German Capitalism to promote fascist austerity. Today, Obama, the democrats, Congress appease this same degenerating class process, turning the FDR social reform of the capitalist state, into the Amerikan Weimar crippled class republic, its proto fascist process, where Fascist Capitalism and its militarism now become a global fascist Matrix, and dictatorships.

The ancient Greeks clearly understood that their class deformed civil societies, despite partial experiments in demoracy, in social reform, not only did not reclaim the social agency of the Social Matriarchy, but that the Patriarchal class mechanism was stil in place, to deform social reforms, dismantle them, and revers partial evolutionary social steps, back into the class degenerating clas cycles, where class republics, class democracies, would join the family of class forms, class terminologies, with others already identified, namely: oligarchy, plutocracy, (class) tyrants, and (class) Empires with their endless, permanent militarism. Plato's attempt to graft partial experiments in democracy, social reforms into the existing Patriarchal class mechanism, became just another failed class state, like others, two serious lessons, failures, in policy, in strategies, internalized by the Social Enlghtenment, 2000 plus years later, not to promote class myths, "noble lies", class idelogies, and not to depend on class rulers, class systems, to expect them, appeal to them to promote social justice, social control. Appealing to "enlightened" class rulers, within class systems repeated these same failures, but the best social thinkers in the Social Enlightenment, realized that an independent, indivisible social agency was needed to re claim the social control of wealth and labor, from parasitical class systems, and called for the creation of "viable", middle classes, who no longer were deformed by class hierarchies, class deformed behavior, and free from class corruption. The true definition of the meaning, "indivisible", "independent"....."with justice for all", exists as a social relic still standing within the Pledge of Allegiance, whose goal was social Patriotism, social nationalism, but linked as global social alliances around the world, and not the betrayal, into class patriotism, class nationalism, created by the failure of removing partial, class deformed middle hierarchies, going into the industrial revolution. Beethoven knew that revolutionary liberalism and the Enlightenment had been lost with the class compromises of the first Capitalist tyrant under Napoleon. Today's class liberals/conservatives ignore this lesson ,hence part of the proto fascist, class process itself.

TRUE SOCIAL POWER MUST BE INTERNATIONAL, BASED ON A SOCIAL AGENCY, FULLY DEVELOPED MIDDLE LAYERS, WHO PROMOTE SOCIAL AGENDAS, LIBERTARIAN AGENDAS, THAT DOES AWAY WITH BOTH THE CLASS STATE AND ITS MONOPOLY WITH CORPORATE, CLASS POWER. ONLY A GLOBAL REVOLUTION, REJECTING ALL CLASS PARTIES, ALL CLASS POLITICIANS, WILL BRING ABOUT THE CRITICAL , CUMULATIVE, SOCIA FORCES NEEDED TO END THE CLASS DEFORMATION IMPOSED ON ALL POST COLONIAL STATES, ALL DEFORMED WORKERS/STALINIST STATES, THAT ARE FALSELY COMPARED TO WESTERN CLASS POWERS, WHEN IN FACT THESE DEFORMED OUTCOMES ARE PRODUCED BY THE SAME GLOBAL, PATRIARCHAL CLASS MECHANISM, COMPARING FAILURE TO FAILURE, ALL FAILED CLASS STATES, ALL FAILED DEFORMED WORKERS STATES THROUGH THIS GENERIC HISTORICAL, PATRIARCHAL CLASS MECHANISM, THAT WOULD HAVE ITS SPINE CRUSHED, IF CLASS HIERARCHIES, FASCIST PROFESSONALS, KNOW NOTHINGS HAD NO SUCH ENABLING MECHANISM AND GLOBAL TOTALITARIAN FASCIST MATRIX, DESTROYING THEIR FAVORITE CLASS MYTH, THAT JOB CREATION IS CREATED BY PARASITICAL CLASS SYSTEMS, JUST AS THE SELF INFLICTED CLASS DELUSION, BY SOCIAL MASSES BELIEVES THAT ELEPHANTS CREATE KITTENS, CLASS SYSTEMS CREATE SOCIAL CONTROL AND JUSTICE/DEMOCRACY, WHEN IT BETRAYS, AND FINALLY ENSLAVES THEM, AS THEY THROW AWAY THEIR VOTES TO CLASS PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD:

"Finally, I got up out of bed and a thought dawned on me. First, was that this dream was probably primed by the movie. But then, the big realization was that Obama's decision to kill Americans extra-judicially, without justice, without judges or courts, was probably based on precedent.

It's just not in Obama's DNA to decide to set a policy that it's okay to kill people. But he went public with that policy. My dream tied together the dots in my head that Obama had to be persuaded to set this policy. And the way he was persuaded was he was told and shown evidence that others before him had already followed this trail-- probably George W Bush 43 and Cheney, maybe even Clinton and almost certainly former CIA director George Herbert Walker Bush 41.

George Herbert Walker Bush posing at the CIA Does anyone doubt he authorized killings?

The fact that Obama was not the first president to do it does not take away from how wrong it is.

I think we need to get this dirty, frankly, horrible aspect of Executive power on the table. We need to go back in history and draw a line and start asking which presidents exercised this power and who they killed. I have zero doubt that Obama did it first. He did it because he wanted to look tough and maybe because he got caught. But it casts a light into a dark, stygian corner of our decaying republic, that some are under the illusion is a democracy. That dark corner needs a lot more light.

There's a chance that a pair of psychopathic narcissistic corporatists will be in the White House and then, who knows what ways they will define threats to national security and enemies of the state.

We are moving at an accelerating pace deeper and deeper into a police state. We don't even know how bad it is. Movies like Bourne Legacy are not wild fantasies. They are probably reasonable speculations of the kinds of things that NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI and all the fusion centers and even local law enforcement orgs, engorged with Homeland Security funding, are already doing.

My nightmare, that people are pushed to change records and then killed is minor league compared to reality. I have no doubts about that. As a website owner, I approach problems with the website with a philosophy that drives my webmaster crazy. I believe that for every bug or problem on the site that a user reports, there are 10 or 100 users who have faced the bug without reporting it. I take every bug very seriously.

When it comes to presidential assassinations, I think it's reasonable to make a similar assumption. For every one we know about there are ten or 100 that we are never told about, maybe a thousand.

Rachel Maddow has written, in her brilliant book, Drift, about how the military industrial, security complex is out of control. We must take heroic actions to get it, including its commander in chief, back under the control of we-the-people. Power, once attained, fights fiercely to hold on to that power, even power attained through the pseudo-meritocracy, as Chris Hayes brilliantly writes about in his book, Twilight of the Elites.

We will not be able to ask nicely for our power back, or for the military or the intelligence agencies or the Executive branch's power to be given up. We will have to take strong, powerful actions. We will have to use all the resources that we the people have to take away the powers that have been accumulated so pathologically. And we do have powers. We still have the internet, thought they're trying hard to take it away from us. We still have the first amendment-- freedom of speech, press and assembly. But, with electronic surveillance, we've lost the heart of the 4th amendment-- freedom from unreasonable search.

It could be that the US is too far down the police state road to turn back, as it may be with global warming. But the first step to fixing and then changing something for the better is to be aware of, to diagnose the full extent and the etiology of the problem. Realizing that killing Americans and foreigners has been US policy and presidential policy for years, probably scores of years, is a beginning. Maybe I'm naive and it's just me that figured this out. Or maybe this has been taken for granted. It's time for that to change. It's time to start systematically taking away powers that Presidents and security agencies have grabbed....."

BOYCOTT THE CORPORATE MEDIA, LIARS, BOYCOTT THE LYING FASCIST CONGRESS AND ITS FASCIST TWO PARTY PARTISANSHIP, BOYCOTT THE FASCIST JUDGES, BY VOTING AGAINST THE WHOLE CLASS SYSTEM, ALL CLASS PARTIES, AND REMOVING THESE CLASS THUGS, IDEOLOGICAL THUGS, JUDICIAL NAZIS FROM POWER BY PLACING SOCIAL CLASSES IN POWER, FREE FROM CLASS HIERARCHIES, TIED TO THE CLASS HISTORY OF PATRIARCHAL CLASS MECHANISM. DO THAT AND THERE WILL BE NO FASCIST AUSTERITY, ENSLAVEMENT FOR THE PARASITICAL RULING CLASSES, NO FASCIST, MILITARY ALLIANCES WITH ENDLESS WARS AND SOCIAL CUTS.

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